What causes Nortons Utilities to keep restarting when using Speed Disk

[jaytone]

Hi
I am using Nortons Systemworks 2001, Windows ME and have my h.d. partitioned into 4 drives. When I do a Speeddisk on the D,E, and F it runs through with no problems, but
when I do it on the C drive, after about 4 minutes, it will restart. This keeps happening every 4 to 5 minutes and starts the speed disk all over again and never gets to 100 percent done.
I have disable all power management, screen savers and everything in the systems tray.
I also have the latest updates for Nortons 2001.
Any ideas ?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Use ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task list and kill everything but Explorer and Systray (you can kill systray too, but it doesn't interfere with a defrag).

Just shutting down everything in the system tray doesn't necessarily close all programs, as there are many that don't show an icon.

The fact that it only happens on the C drive is the biggest indicator that something is running in the background, since that is where most programs would be storing data during operation, even if installed on another drive.

If nothing is running in the task list and it still happens, it could be that WinME is running something and not allowing you to shut it down. It could be a built in utility, like the system file protection. Not sure how you'd stop that.

 

[jaytone]

Thank you very much, I will give your advice a try.

 

[shurato]

edit : whoops dont know if the information from my post pertained to ME.

 

[corkyg]

In addition to shutting down all background programs, it also helps to fix the size of your swap file . . . make the max and min the same . . . about 2X RAM. It is even better to have the swap file on a separate partition, not on the C: drive.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The swapfile won't affect his defragging though. And 2X RAM is not a valid way to determine size. I'm certainly not going to make a 512MB swap file on my system (or 1.2GB after the new RAM arrives). And if I only had 32MB I certainly would make a swap file larger than 64MB. Many games also require a minimum swapfile size if you don't allow Windows to manage it.

 

[Goi]

On another note, is there anything different between NU2000 and NU2001? I currently have NU2000, might consider upgrading.

 

[randypj]

I believe I received an email update that indicated for W9x users....no. I believe it does enhance W2K capabilities. Dunno about ME......oh, reminds me, I have to go pay for the virus updates.
--Randy